I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Let's start with the labels. If my post is "another apple guided opinion, formed by the PR...etc", your posts are the polar opposite. I'll leave it to the reader to discern what label that may be.Ah, another Apple-guided "opinion", formed by their PR & spin docters that flood the world with fruity propaganda. Paid by us, customers - and far more expensive than all Apple's donations combined.
So thank you for offering some return on that investment.
To fill the empty half that they leave out of the equation:
Yes, they stepped in, but their business model is intrinsically based on inequality that TC vocally refutes. When your hear Apple say "sustainable", they actually mean this business model.
And their tax behavior, being investigated, seems tax avoidance by Irish, but tax evasion by EU regs. Essentially activities are attributed to places where they don't happen, which is just as discutable as me walking out of an AppleStore paying $100 less for my iPad than you or anybody else. Or just stealing every 5th iDevice for that matter (...)
About moral obligations: I think as the largest corporation in the world, they should be an example, and beyond discussion. Instead of being another milkman, applauded by the uncritical that follow Apple framing and incomplete truths - rather than the bigger picture.
So this is the student's story: while they appear to be conformative, their existance remains based on social inequality and exploitation on an immense scale.
Thinking different - but essentially doing always the same.
As far as the rest of your posts, you are cherry picking what you don't like about apple and essentially applying some spin to it. As the largest corporation in the world, Apple has no more moral obligation than the second largest, the third largest etc. They are in the business to provide a service - Peter Drucker 101. It's all well and good that due to TC corporate philanthropy has been increased, the company is more active with human rights and social injustice etc, but that is not their business model. And it seems they are successful by all measures in "think different".
As far as taxes, Apple is under no legal obligation to pay more taxes than it has to. That the EU wants more and thus "apple is under investgation" is nonsense. Guilty until proven innocent.
If you don't like apple, maybe Samsung would suit you better. Their CEO is in jail and have been accused of numerous human rights violations. But they aren't the largest corporation and hence, according to you, have no moral obligation. But, they pay their taxes.
And I don't see you volunteering to fund a pay raise for these people in that factory. Apple is certainly active to ensure human rights are preserved in these factories, but they are under no obligation to pay more than the prevailing wage any more than General Motors in their factories to their UAW workers. The problem is stepping down from the "proverbial high horse", one would break their necks.